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Originally Posted by Oceanbreeze
Wouldn't you need a strong foundation in a language first before you can effectively use cued speech?
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Oceanbreeze - No, why do you think that? Can you expand on your logic for me please.
For example, spoken English, consists of consonants (phonemes) and vowels (phonemes)strung together. When a child is cued to, he/she is basically "seeing the sound of the spoken language" (for simplification purposes). Cueing is done simultaneously with lip movement(please note that this does not have to actually be voiced) and the hand shapes(for consonants) along with the hand placements (for vowels - of which in English the mouth makes 3 distinct shapes), teaches the child English through the system of Cued Speech.
I am not versed in what processes occur in the brain to explain to you exactly how this happens. What I can share with you is my experiences.
Thankcue.